STRONGEST CONNECTION VOL. 3 - An Experimental Dance Event with LIVE MUSIC

Lucy-Lameck-Straße 32

Lucy-Lameck-Straße 32, 12049, Berlin, BE, Germany

conFUSION concept by Nelody

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NELODY(she/her) is a Berlin-based choreographer, dance artist, movement designer and director from Finland. She graduated as a professional contemporary dancer in 2014. Her dance career started through music theatre and musicals, and she went through hip hop and other styles from black dance culture, and ultimately she studied contemporary dance. As a dancer she has worked in for example inStaatstheater NurembergandLAVAMOVER Contemporary Dance Companyand withHeidi Weissand theFlying Steps.Nelody’s dance practise isinterdisciplinary dance, cross-over, FUSION: she is the creator ofconFUSION concept, her dance practise and philosophy, which studies different dance cultures and researches the connecting points between and among different dance styles and performance practises and draws inspiration from various dance cultures and creative processes (i.e afro-diasporic dance styles, contemporary dance theatre, film). Nelody's dance style and her work is experimental and she loves to explore to find new ways to perceive and comprehend her dance.Nelody works in international multidisciplinary film and music productions as a choreographer, movement designer, movement director and performance coach (e.gMENTRIX, TORA, Lostboi Lino...). She also works with commercials (SEAT, OPEL).She is the director, co-author and the artistic director of'The Journey', a dance theatre production for children by Flying Steps (premiered 02/2020). For a German dance movie 'FLY'(in German cinemas in 2021), Nelody worked as the movement designer and the personal dance coach of the main actressSvenja Jungand designed an own movement language for her and as well assistedYaman Okur(main choreographer) in the choreographic processes. Last year she worked withBerlin Movesas the assistant choreographer for CLEO - a short semi-digital dance opera premiering in Glashaus Arena Berlin end of October 2022.Currently Nelody is a choreographer inJunge Deutsche Operin Berlin and an artistic director of ‘Strongest Connection’, an interdisciplinary/ cross-over dance event which takes place end of summer 2023 in Berlin. The event focuses in fusion and interdisciplinary practises around dance and performing arts together with live musicians. Nelody also performs, writes a dance short film series and teaches her conFUSION concept in intensive workshops, dance programs and dance educations. She has worked/taught professional dancer training for example inTanzakademie balance1, SENECA Intensive, Marameo e.V , Advanced Dance Program, Tanssille Ry(Finland)). She also works in social projects which focus on sustainability and empowerment through dance (TanzZeit, Start2Dance e.V, sPERANTO worldwide, Danceteam International).